vestibule – English noun declension

English noun forms of vestibule

Noun: vestibule
Singularvestibule
Pluralvestibules

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: foyer
  • Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room. [1813, Jane Austen, chapter 19, in Pride and Prejudice, volume 2:]
  • The purpose of the vestibule, at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside. [1913, Beda Julius Kleinschmidt, “Vestibule”, in Catholic Encyclopedia:]
  • Some instinct warned Armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to see, so he brushed back the crowd with authority as he unlocked the vestibule door. [1929 April, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror/Chapter VI”, in Weird Tales:]
  • The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door. [1912, Electric Railway Journal, volume XL, number 14, page 556:]
  • The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car. [1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:]
  • The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish. [1838, Joseph Garland, “Formation of the Ear”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 17, page 333:]
  • The Vestibule (vestibulum nasi). — The paired vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa. [1920, Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, Paranasal Sinuses, Nasolacrimal Passageways, and Olfactory Organ in Man: A Genetic, Developmental, and Anatomico-physiological Consideration, page 73:]
  • The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule. [2001, René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment, page 79:]
  • She spread her labia further, both sets of lips protecting the vestibule, the delicate area between them. [2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 318:]

Etymology

Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule (“entrance court”), from Latin vestibulum (“forecourt, entrance court; entrance”), from vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) + -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). Doublet of vestibulum. See: French Nouns 'vestibule', Latin Nouns 'vestibulum'.